On the plus side, Lucas has said he's retiring, right? It may be that he'll leave this one to competent professionals who know what makes good television and what made Star Wars good, once upon a time.

Maybe the scripts will even get rewrites? Maybe the directors will be the kind who are capable of getting a performance from actors, like Kirshner was?

I mean, the "Empire on steroids" quote is godawful, but maybe, translated from McCallum's exaggerated toady-speak, that simply means "similar in tone to Empire"?

I'm going to remain the voice of optimism here until I am officially kneed in the Gundarks.

Agreed. If that "leak" is to be believed, it sounds almost like the last Star Trek movie.

Here's hoping that with GL's (and hopefully permanent) retirement, we'll get a series that's worth watching.

Though, the 2003 Clone Wars series was pretty good if you ask me.

sounds like the live-action series has been pushed back even further , seems like George and Rick got a rude awakening when they realised there was no short-term profit on a tv series, I don't know why they haven't scaled back their ideas and gone for a more character driven adult drama like the Battlestar reboot, probably has something to do with George sucking when it comes dealing with actors and emotions and dialogue and stuff.

Or if they're so obsessed with effects , why don't they take their Clone Wars animation to the next step and do it completely CGI.

any guesses as to what STARWARS 13-13 might be?  the new Robot Chicken produced show? a 13 disc set next year?

and odd that there was no mention of the next 3d installment

Daniel tells us that one of the series' first episodes will involve a group of  bandits acquiring the capability of time travel, and using it to travel back in time to stop Darth Vader from ever existing. 

Bastards! They stole my idea! ;)

A few years ago I wrote a short screen play telling the tale of a young Han Solo who has been sent back in time to protect a young Shmi Skywalker from an assassin droid sent back to kill her to prevent the reign of Darth Vader. 

In this story I am proud of the fact that I manage to shrink the SW universe even more by giving Han an important role in the Skywalker family lineage.

I still think it would be great if this were real. Han needs to be Anakin's father! He is still the only character that isn't closely related to all the other characters. It doesn't feel right, he deserves better. Besides, there are a lot of out of work short short people, casting all those dwarfs would be a good boost to our economy.

Tobar said:

Chewie is closely related to the Skywalkers!?! =O

No, but he and Yoda go way back. I think Yoda was the Bacca family doctor and actually delivered Chewbacca. Who knows, Chewie probably has some Yoda DNA in him. There are 700 years of Yoda back story prior to Chewie's birth, anything could have happened. Then again, there are two hundred years of Yoda and Chewie backstory after Chewie's birth, maybe they Brokeback'ed it up and Yoda gave birth to Han somewhere in there (you never know how these alien reproductive systems work). Han could totally be an inbred, deformed, wookie/little green elf hybrid (which incidentally looks kind of human). That be totally wizard! Then Yoda would be Luke and Leia's great grandfather, as well as Leia's mother-in-law. It feels very appropriate and in line with established SW lore.

The thing you have to understand about the Star Wars universe is that red lightsaber means Sith, blue and green mean Jedi, and that everyone is closely related, it is just a matter of figuring out how.

I like how Rick is several years behind the times.  These days he should be invoking "Game of Thrones in space".